Didge Doo

Is there any way to combat the obesity epidemic?

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Aldrich Ames Profile
Aldrich Ames answered

Ban being fat and send fat people to camps where they're to be kept at a diet and exercise daily depending on how many pounds they are overweight. 10/10 it should work. /s

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Now I'm really having a good day. I was just at the supermarket and the checkout chick called me "elderly". I'm gonna run away and hide. :(
Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames commented
The only time I've felt like an adult was when a waitress called me "sir". That felling faded away but I still remember it. The elderly don't seem unlike able to me. It's awesome hearing stories from my friend's grandparents (My grandparents were dead before I was born) about life before the "modern internet world".
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I didn't meet any of my grandparents, either. My parents were relatively old when I came along (41 for Mum and 53 for Dad) and their parents had already passed on.
Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered
  • Set aside the time to cook a nutritious dinner every night, instead of frozen junk.
  • Monitor video gaming, phone usage, computer usage.
  • Kick the kids outside to play and exercise.
Parents should teach them how to cook, how to play outside games and teach them the art of conversation. If parents could do this for their kids and participate with them, both kids and parents would control their weight a little better.
Bikergirl Anonymous Profile

Start with our food sources .. Limit junk food available to consumers, make good wholesome food more affordable, outlaw GMO foods (all engineered foods), and promote healthy eating and lifestyles

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Bikergirl Anonymous
I hear ya .. that's why I think there should be a monetary tax break for those when buy organic and wholesome foods .. and .. tax the junk/fast foods to make up the lost revenue which would make better choice foods more affordable and more desirable.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
We grow a lot of our own vegetables. Organically. But I won't pay for an organic label on purchased food -- it could be anything.
Bikergirl Anonymous
That's why I think there should be a systematic change to how we (as a society) handle and market consumables. We could plausibly benefit from more stringent laws that protect the consumer from what we have become accustomed to .. poisoned food. Poisoned by pesticide, herbicide, antibiotic, hormones and whatever the heck they taint our foods with.. that is directly related to our failing health as a society.
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PJ Stein answered

I used to live near a city that had areas that didn't have any supermarkets. Of course in those who lived in those areas were people who had no transportation. They were left to eat whatever the local convenience store or fast food restaurant had to offer. Neighborhoods like that need to be able to shop in places they can get fresh food, or have places to grow community gardens. A program they were starting before I moved away was a mobile farmers market. They took and old school bus, took the seats out and built bins. They would go to those neighborhoods and sell their produce. They had a schedule where they went to different neighborhoods on different days.

Water Nebula Profile
Water Nebula answered

To be fair, those charts they use measure general weight, not obesity. So someone who's very muscular would still be marked as obese

Otis Campbell Profile
Otis Campbell answered

Stop eating so much.

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